Taking the cake

I still don’t get the whole cupcake thing. I mean, I don’t see how you can make a living selling nothing but overpriced cakelets. (& the ones I had in Seattle—brought round by the department admin to celebrate some non-event back in the days before budgets were a burden—were truly gagworthy.)

But here’s something that boggles the mind even further: shops that sell nothing but bundt cakes.

I was walking around the neighborhood surrounding the Sunnyvale Public Library a month or so ago & came across this:

& then, at the Mountain View Arts & Wine Festival, the store had a booth:

I tasted two of their samples. They were as ghastly as the Seattle cupcakes. Plus, I think I went into insulin shock; I mean—we’re talking serious sugar here.

There are evidently franchises available if you’re looking to get out of the corporate rat race. Just because I don’t get it doesn’t mean there are at least 16 potential customers who might.